Greetings all; When I setup LCNC on the pi, one of the things I did was to make an R-Pi_nc_files directory on the rotating media of this machine, copied all the .ngc files I have generated to run on TLM to it, and cleaned out the nc_files directory on the pi, leaving only 2 files, which will remind me when I see them that the directory on this machine has not been mounted on top of that one.
Thats by this one liner script: sshfs g...@coyote.coyote.den:/home/gene/linuxcnc/R-Pi_nc_files/ /home/pi/linuxcnc/R-Pi_nc_files All one line of course, and the .ini file edited to point nc_files at it. With all the config file updates I am doing as I work on both the jog wheels and in due time the gear shift stuff when I've installed the belt position sensors, that I am using up the microsd. It is a bigger one, a Samsung 32Gb, so it will be a while before that occurs, unlike the san-disk lookalikes that I destroyed 2 of in 3 days each. Bad karma, and ruined my taste for san-disk stuff entirely. I am considering doing the similar remote mount of rotating media for the configs directory as it is getting 100x the read-modify-write activity as I make this and that work. An sshfs mount doesn't seem to be any slower than the microsd so far. But since it gets a write to new .var files everytime I close LCNC, it seems like a good idea. That mount could be incorporated into the above script as: sshfs g...@coyote.den:/home/gene/linuxcnc/R-Pi_configs/ /home/pi/linuxcnc/configs Shoot me down if you think its wrong. :-) I do have amanda backing up the whole pi, so I could theoretically recover to last nights backup state on a fresh Samsumg microsd with a basic jessie install on it, but it does take time that I'd like to forestall doing as long as I can. A 2nd alternative might be a usb to ssd adaptor but I've not investigated setting up such a critter. Has anyone else? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
